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[–] 132 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    With a helpful reminder in parenthesis that they mean flamingo the bird, as opposed to the casino, which doesn’t have any feet.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    According to their press kit, their casino alone has 93,000 feet. All of them square for some reason.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But why Katakana? Those are some reasonably basic kanji- certainly not beyond bird anyway.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    it seems that the scientific nomenclature for families of animals in Japanese uses katakana:

    this is confirmed by a few comments on this page: https://ja.hinative.com/questions/14614111

    Basically, the kanji “犬” is used. Since “犬” is an elementary Kanji character, the hiragana “いぬ” is not often used.

    The katakana “イヌ” is used in more biological contexts than “犬”.

    Example:

    • “Walking with a dog” 犬
    • “Inu is a mammalian animal” イヌ

    However, not all Japanese follow this rule. If in doubt, just write the kanji character for “dog” and you will be fine.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    If you’re looking for more the source is Satoshi Kawasaki books “Exchanging bodies with animals”. Might have better luck finding a webpage if you can read Japanese. There’s definitely more nightmare fuel out there to find, the search term “Satoshi Kawasaki animals as human” should get you some hits.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As if human legs aren't the weird ones - they evolved from feet into hands and then into weird hands that we walk around on and call feet.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Humans evolved from animals that walked on the ground, on the part of the hand/foot we would call fingers/toes. Like most animals btw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitigrade?wprov=sfti1).

    Then the those animals transitioned into arboreal creatures, which evolved hands in order to climb & live in trees. These animals would’ve had hands & feet like monkeys.

    Then those arboreal animals transitioned back into walking animals that didn’t climb as much, which turned their feet into something more like chimp/gorilla feet.

    Then those animals began walking upright, which changed their feet to lose the ability to grasp since they no longer climbed as much. This is what gave humans the feet we have now.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Parasyte mentioned🗣️‼️‼️

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Horse feet are so strange. Actually, horse fingers and toes. Most of what you can the horse "leg" is what would be your finger.

    With a big beefy nail that looks like horror when born, and smashes and rubs into place in their first day.

    If they don't give you nightmares, you don't understand how they work.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wait, what? Please tell me more about this horror nail, I had no idea

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When they're born, they're called foal slippers.

    https://horseyhooves.com/foal-slippers/

    But just in general, horse hooves are amazing and so weird. It's literally if your middle finger was half your leg, and the nail was a huge wraparound thing. Then plus you grew extra keratin on your fingertip like a mega callus from birth. Because why not?

    https://horsecareadvisor.com/horses-hooves-when-born/

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is a whole new level of orgasm for people who are into feet.
    Yes, I am one of them.
    Please do not kink shame us.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I keep repeating this to everyone who's listening and add that cats have clown feet.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    What, you don't want to be able to dunk without jumping?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    What really puzzels me personally are bovine front legs, the joints are kinda all over the place

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    "Couldn't you have at least changed both of my legs??"

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    "I wish to be a werewolf; half man, half wolf!"

    The monkey paw curls a finger and the wish is granted as the left half the human is transfigured into the form of a wolf

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  • When a cat loafs, the things that stick up on either side of her back? Those are her knees.

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  • So you’re telling me my bird doesn’t actually have backwards knees, it’s his ankle??

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    A good day to be a leg man.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There was a great Vinesauce segment on Satoshi Kawasaki. I love this weird shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Kinda creepy, but interesting enough to be worth it!

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